Four fires reported in the East Montgomery County displays benefits of mutual aid assistance

Jennifer Summer

Published 6:13 am, Friday, October 24, 2014

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Firefighters douse 4 blazes in East Montgomery County

Firefighters douse 4 blazes in East Montgomery County

Four fires reported in the East Montgomery County displays benefits of mutual aid assistance

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A New Caney family is picking up the pieces after a fire ripped through their mobile home around 7:30 p.m. last night, killing their two dogs and bird.

The New Caney Fire Department received a call of a large fire engulfing a single-wide mobile home in the 18000 block of Deer Glen in New Caney.

When the firefighters arrived, all of the residents had made it out of the home safely but notified the firefighters that their three pets including two dogs and one bird were still inside the residence.

“We were unable to save the animals due to the heavy fire load and the ammunition in the residence going off,” Fire Chief Jeff Taylor said. “One of the family members started to have seizures at the scene due to the stress of the fire and was transported by the Montgomery County Hospital District. The intense heat, fire and smoke destroyed all of the contents of the residence.”

Taylor stated that not long after the fire, the American Red Cross and New Caney-based nonprofit organization, Heaven’s Army, stepped in to help the family have clothing items and a place to stay while they work to get back on their feet.

Though there were some water concerns, the New Caney Fire Department had two tankers and a pumper truck on scene.

Because of the fire load, the mutual aid assistance brought in more water to help extinguish the fire.

This fire was one of the three fire calls that dropped around 7 p.m. for New Caney Fire Department which means they had to rely on mutual aid assistance agreements from neighboring fire departments to put the fires out safely.

Around the same time, New Caney Fire Department received a call of smoke in a residence around 7 p.m. on Oct. 23 in the 16000 block of Main Street in Patton Village.

“Upon arrival of New Caney Fire Department, paramedics were already working to revive the 67-year-old resident of the home who was in cardiac arrest,” Taylor said. “It appears the man, who is on oxygen, was smoking in the bathroom when he lost consciousness and a towel in the bathroom ignited.”

The man was transported to Kingwood Medical Center where his condition is unknown.

Additionally, the New Caney Fire Department received their third fire call at 7:44 p.m. on Oct. 23 to the 14000 block of First Street in Splendora.

“The firefighters responded to a structure fire where there were no injuries reported,” Taylor said.

Splendora Fire Department and New Caney Fire Department worked together to extinguish this particular fire.

Before the three fire calls dropped around 7 p.m., the New Caney Fire Department started their day at 3 a.m. on Oct. 23 with a fire in the kitchen of an unoccupied mobile home fire in the 21000 block of S. Sabine Road in New Caney where New Caney and Porter Fire Departments worked together to put out the fire. There were no injuries reported since this residence was unoccupied.

“We were stretched with the fire large fire calls all around the same time but this is what we train for and it shows how mutual aid assistance with our neighboring fire departments works,” Taylor said. “We have a system in place to ensure that we can keep our residents safe.”